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DC woman ordered held behind bars for deadly Rock Creek Parkway crash

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:10 GMT

A D.C. woman accused of driving drunk and causing a deadly crash on Rock Creek Parkway in March will remain in jail for now.This comes after an arraignment hearing Monday at D.C. Superior Court for Nakita Marie Walker, 43, on charges of three counts of second-degree murder for the March 15 crash.Walker is first accused of fleeing U.S. Park Police after a traffic stop; but according to court documents, police did not pursue the Lexus SUV that Walker was driving.Investigators said that Walker reached speeds as high as 100 mph, according to vehicle data, before crossing double lines and crashing into a Honda Accord.Mohamed Kamara, 42, of Burtonsville, Maryland, was driving the Honda for Lyft at the time, with passengers Jonathan Cabrera Mendez, 23, and Olvin Torres Velasquez, 22, both of Arlington, Virginia. All three died during the crash.In court on Tuesday, Walker’s attorney claimed a man in the car, with whom Walker had gone to the movies, had two guns in his possession and that sh...

El tumor de Jeff Bridges se ha reducido “al tamaño de una canica”

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:10 GMT

(CNN) — Jeff Bridges es un superviviente.Hasta ahora, el actor ha vencido un cáncer avanzado y un caso grave de covid-19.En un nuevo reportaje de portada para la revista AARP, Bridges cuenta que estaba en un descanso pandémico de su serie “El viejo” cuando “estaba haciendo unos ejercicios en el suelo y sentí lo que parecía un hueso en el estómago”.Su esposa Susan Geston le sugirió que se hiciera un chequeo, dijo, pero Bridges dudó en ir al médico porque no sentía dolor.“Estoy haciendo senderismo y me encuentro muy bien. Me picaban mucho las pantorrillas y pensé: “Es que tengo la piel seca”, recordó Bridges. Luego tuve sudores nocturnos, pero pensé: “Son las noches calurosas de verano. Resulta que son síntomas de linfoma”.El hombre de 73 años dice ahora que tenía un tumor de 23 x 30 centímetros contra el que inició un tratamiento de quimioterapia.Después, el covid le dio fuerte (en parte porque la quimio le había aniquilado el sis...

Food sovereignty project continues to grow

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:10 GMT

By: Jan Murphy, Local Journalism InitiativeTYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY – For Andrew Brant, gardening takes him back to his childhood, to precious time he spent with his late grandfather, bonding, learning, even making more work for a man he holds in the highest regard.Brant chuckled while standing roadside at his garden along York Road in Tydendinaga Mohawk Territory as he recounted how he used to help his grandfather during potato planting season.“He was going along planting potatoes and I was following behind him pulling them out because I thought that they were the ones that needed to be pulled,” he remembered with a laugh. “I never lived that story down.”Gardening and a strong connection to the land has always been a huge part of Brant’s life, having been born and raised as a member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte. So much so that last year, along with his wife, Renee, and the help of good friend Nick LaMarsh and others in the Indigenous community, Brant created a food sover...

Police search for alleged shooter who killed mother of 6 in NE Miami-Dade

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:10 GMT

There was a family tragedy at a South Florida park when a mother and her six children comes under fire while they were in their car. The mother ended up dying after the shots were fired.Miami-Dade Police worked well into the night Tuesday as they tried to piece together the crime. A search for the gunman who killed the mother of six is also underway. “I cannot even begin to imagine what those children felt having watched their mom get shot,” Said MDPD Officer Angel Rodriguez. “I cannot even imagine what they are feeling or going through right now.”The shooting happened at Oak Grove Park on Northeast 159th Street and Seventh Avenue.According to investigators, what started as some sort of dispute between two groups quickly turned deadly..“The dispute escalated when a firearm was produced,shots were fired, striking the adult female victim,” Rodriguez said.That mother was struck by gunfire as she tried to drive off.“As the female fled the area, ...

Police search for thief caught on surveillance video breaking into home in Fort Lauderdale

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:10 GMT

Fort Lauderdale Police are working to solve a smash and steal.Surveillance video caught a thief walking around the pool area of a home moments before he smashed a bedroom door and broke in.The burglary happened near Bayview Drive and Northeast 47th Street.The owners of that home came back to find the place ransacked and their precious heirlooms were gone.“The jewelry and the items they took, they’re tangible, they also invaded our space of safety,” Rosemary Bowen said. “Everyone likes to think their home is a safe place, and with someone breaking into your home, it’s difficult to feel safe again.”Dozens of pieces of jewelry were stolen and more than 65 items were taken.The family said the items were worth more than $100,000.

Poem read at President Biden’s inauguration moved to middle school section at Bob Graham Education Center Library after parent complains about content

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:10 GMT

There is a classroom controversy at a South Florida school. Several books and a poem that was read at President Biden’s inauguration were pulled from the elementary student section of the media center.The poem, “The Hill We Climb,” was read by Amanda Gorman.“We the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother, can dream of becoming president, only to find herself reciting for one,” read Gorman during President Biden’s inauguration. The poem was written in the wake of the attack on the Capital in January of 2021. Now, the poem is at the center of a book battle at a Miami Lakes school.“It’s about indoctrination, [Critical Race Theory] and gender ideology,” Daily Salinas said. Salinas said that those were her concerns when she filed complaints related to five books that were in the Bob Graham Education Center Library that serves grades K-8.“I didn’t see ...

Europe wants Latin America on side against Vladimir Putin. Good luck with that

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:10 GMT

LONDON — In the struggle for hearts and minds against Russia, Europe has it sights on a new target. Unfortunately for them, Latin America’s not listening.An extended charm offensive by senior diplomats from major European nations and institutions has sought to win over neutrally-minded Latin American nations to their cause as part of the broader geopolitical battle with Russia and China.U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is the latest to try his hand, visiting Brazil on Wednesday for the final day of a week-long tour of Latin America which has already included high-level talks in Colombia and Chile.The trip — the first by a U.K. foreign secretary to the region in five years — is part of a wider diplomatic push, set out explicitly by Cleverly in a speech last December, to win over nations who “often describe themselves as ‘non-aligned’” and “are wary of committing themselves in any direction, just because other countries want them to.”South America has attracted particu...

Belgium suffers blowback over Qatargate, minister says

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:10 GMT

For the past six months, Brussels has been at the center of the biggest European Union corruption scandal for almost a quarter of a century. But the criminal investigation into the so-called Qatargate claims, which have severely damaged the EU’s reputation for integrity, has not been cost-free for the small European nation in charge of the inquiry. Belgium’s Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden told POLITICO that the investigation, which has uncovered allegations that foreign governments bribed EU lawmakers, has had consequences for the country’s diplomatic relations with the states allegedly involved. As interior minister, Verlinden is in charge of the Belgian police, whose unit for combatting corruption played a role in building the case that Qatar and Morocco allegedly bought influence in the European Parliament. The police also helped carry out the series of raids in December that delivered sensational finds, including a suitcase filled with cash. “We have no...

China’s new anti-spy law is just the beginning

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:10 GMT

Peter Humphrey is a former Reuters correspondent and spent 15 years as a fraud investigator in China for Western firms. He is currently an external research affiliate of Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a mentor to families of foreigners wrongfully detained in China.It didn’t matter that I was “dean of the due diligence community” in China, I was still in jail for two years on false charges of illegal information gathering.But today? Today, I might get 20 or life. Or, I might be dead.In 2013, shortly after Xi Jinping had taken power in China, I was locked in an iron interrogation cage in a detention center every day, and was questioned by the Chinese police, the PSB. Then, one day, interrogators from the Ministry of State Security, China’s KGB, took over, and they tried to prove I was a spy.They had gone through my laptop with a fine-tooth comb. “You were gathering intelligence in Xinjiang. Look at this report,” the interrogator growled. “I didn’t write i...

Spain’s Podemos on the defensive as election reckoning looms

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:51:10 GMT

MADRID — A decade after it burst onto the scene, disrupting Spain’s two-party politics and reinvigorating the country’s left, Podemos is facing a reckoning.With local elections being held for 12 of the country’s 17 regional parliaments and in municipalities nationwide on May 28, Podemos lacks strong leadership, with its credibility undermined by a bungled legislative initiative and at loggerheads with its leftist rivals. As a result, the party goes into these elections weaker than at any time since its foundation.“These are elections that will decide whether or not Podemos will continue to represent a significant political space,” said Oriol Bartomeus, researcher at the Institute for Political Studies (ICPS-UAB) in Barcelona. “Podemos has gone into something akin to survival mode.”Founded in 2014, Podemos channeled the anger of the Indignados protest movement that had emerged three years earlier. Like its Greek counterpart, Syriza, Podemos capitalized on the disconte...